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08/06/09
"It is time for the federal government to start policing corrupt corporations, not rewarding them."
Where was this over the last 8 years, 16 years, 20 years? The sins of GE polluting are clearly Obama's fault, since he's been in power for 30 years.
The government has, over the years, removed all funding to the Superfund Cleanup Budget. In addition, the "loopholes" in the Superfund legislation make it cheaper for a company to just pay the fine rather than clean up. So let's put the blame where it belongs, ALL government.
Why is Obama expected to implement every single thing he campaigned on w/in the first 6 months of his presidency? He's got 600 some idiots in Congress he has to deal with to make these changes, you know.
08/06/09
I very much doubt, MSNBC's parent aside, Mr. O'Reilly has any specific criticism for the corporations that have ruined our democracy, even though Enron is responsible for the 2008 gas gouging, for instance, and Halliburton, well, they fucked us up but good with their Iraq war.
At the end of the day, O'Reilly's just another rich fuck running his mouth.
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I can do this all day.
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08/06/09
"Advertising of The Future To Enslave The White Man"
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08/06/09
MSNBC has simply drifted further left because it was a good business decision. The network saw an opportunity to establish themselves as the left-wing equivalent of Fox News, and has been profiting using Fox's own business model. O'Reilly should feel flattered, and stop trying to blindly attack a company that is so iconic of American capitalism, and such a strong republican supporter.
08/06/09
@Iwillnotaudition...: That was damned funny.
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08/06/09
Stinking Hippies!
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08/01/09
Don't these guys work one block from each other in NYC? Their buildings are connected underground. I guess they didn't want to be seen together there.
08/01/09
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08/01/09
In any case, it'll be interesting to see if it gets any traction on the Sunday talkfests, and of course how Olbermann and Bill-O react Monday.
08/01/09
newspapers FTW!
08/01/09
Jesus fucking Christ. Does that part of the article not enrage or deeply sadden anybody else? I can't be the only one.
07/31/09
Just tell me the news, dammit.
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08/01/09
* A person who steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing that line, with the example of the wrang-wrang's own life, to an absurdity.
08/01/09
07/31/09
separating truth from lies is supposed to be the first task of journalism
speaking of truth and lies, there is an entire industry, spawned by the people who told you that cigarettes don't cause cancer, to deny climate change -- in other words, there is a powerful group of paid liars working to spread misinformation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial
http://www.one-blue-marble.com/climate-change-denial-industry.html
The broadcast PR firm Medialink Worldwide put out a video news release (VNR) titled, "Global Warming and Hurricanes: All Hot Air?" Apparently, the segment was aired over WTOK in Mississippi. The firm identified "TCS Daily Science Roundtable" as the client behind the segment. But Medialink didn't disclose that TCS Daily is a website published by Tech Central Station. As PR Watch-er John Stauber reports, ExxonMobil gave the Tech Central Science Foundation $95,000 in 2003, for "climate change support.
http://www.desmogblog.com/former-tobacco-spin-doctor-plays-cruel-climate-change-hoax
Tech Central Station is a climate change denial organ, owned and operated by DCI Group, a Washintgon PR/lobby company. You may remember DCI was recently ousted by the Wall Street Journal as the producers of an Al Gore spoof video posted on YouTube under the guise of an young amatuer video producer. Oh, and would it surprise you if I told you that the current CEO of the DCI Group, Doug Goodyear , was also heavily involved as a PR consultant in RJ Reynold's efforts to manufacture a grassroots campaign against tougher tobacco laws.
If anyone is wondering what a Video News Release is, here is the VNR and here is what it looks like when media pick it up and use it.
07/31/09
07/31/09
Still, this is depressing and not that surprising. The media is overwhelmingly conservative in this country.
07/31/09
The other day I saw radical right wing Michelle Malken on NBC and wondered when in the world they would ever interview an radical liberal about their book?
Never gonna happen.
07/31/09
Just wait, someone is going to say something and a new media feud will erupt.
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07/31/09
Personally, I'm waiting for Roger Ailes's heart to explode simultaneously with Bill O'Reilly's head and Ann Coulter's balls.
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07/31/09
Then again, there's gadzillions of non-news channels that are prying away the news audience too, so specialization was and is inevitable.
07/31/09
08/01/09
08/01/09
In the real world, these networks aren't really that liberal - they are only liberal in contrast to the extremes of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin's histrionics.
These clowns have somehow managed to convince the world that anyone besides them is somehow "liberal"- when, in fact, the networks are more centrist leaning towards conservative.
The Fox crazies are extreme fundamentalists that should start their own cult because nothing they say is fact based--it's all a matter of convincing their audience to "believe." ack!
Before Fox came along, news outlets were far more hard hitting with investigations. IMO, Fox's influence generally tamed the overall landscape of journalism.
08/01/09
08/01/09
In the best of all possible worlds, we would be able to learn all about the NYTimes report of the Pentagon Pimps, the sockpuppet brass who intoned on the battles while on the payroll of the war machine. Now, why did not I see reports of that very significant story on teevee? Well, maybe because I only watch MSNBC, which is owned by one of the offending networks in the paid Pentagon pundit ploy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html
08/01/09
Talking is what every idiot understands. If it's nasty slander, so much the more comprehensible. I would love to see an honest survey comparing the cable teevee audiences for reading comprehension. Text involves thinking, which is beyond the louts who listen to Limbo.
It isn't an accident that all the mentally deficient and deranged accrue to the Pox Noise side of the question. We are fortunate in that Limbo and Cheney have only about a 19% approval rating in general, but they really soar with the knuckle-draggers down south.
Summary: Abe Lincoln was bad wrong.
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